jaclaz

Hmmm, you seem to fail to see the main point of all the work that fdv a.k.a Fred de Vorck and number of other people (with some little contributions by me) have done in latest years, which is dedicated to the REMOVAL of Internet Explorer and of Explorer, also. And as said, the idea of a MINIMAL, EXPERIMENTAL anything is to be, well, MINIMAL and EXPERIMENTAL, so it is well suited for a "project OS" but VERY unsuitable for a "final user". jaclaz

There are TWO ways to make a USB stick seen as "Fixed": 1) Find the controller chip manufacturer tool and "flip" the "Removable" bit off, some utilities have been found for some chips, see this thread here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15776 2) Use a Filter Driver, there are two known ones, the "Hitachi Microdrive Filter" and the Anton Bassov's "dummydisk.sys": http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=14292&st=7 http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/sovie...ct_hooking.aspx Whether any of the above will make the autorun feature working I cannot say. jaclaz

@outcastc Happy you managed to solve your problem. @all About my off-topic remark, it came straight out of this previous thread on boot-land: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=3380&hl= It seems that the mapping of "ununderstandable" languages changes from country to country.... We have found till now: Chinese Arabic Greek Turkish Double-dutch "a book from Heaven" and, of course, English: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=3380&st=36 jaclaz

FYI, that screenshot is from a very early build, with cmd.exe as shell, last version uses blackbox, and it is runnning IN Qemu, which is a (free, Open Source) Virtual Machine. jaclaz

...which takes you back to square #2 jaclaz

@mtec @angel0104 Maybe you should try to integrate the drivers "normally". See these: http://www.msfn.org/board/Add-slipstream-S...ion-t77999.html http://www.msfn.org/board/XP-network-unatt...ATA-t32594.html jaclaz

Sorry if this is not the right place, but I guess that experts with Unattended are the most likely to know the answer. When you boot from the 2K/XP CD on a PC that already has one (or more) installs, Setup "detects" them and offers the option to Repair them. Question is, HOW is this detection performed? I mean does it search for entries in BOOT.INI, looks for \Windows or \Winnt folders, searches the entire hard disk for some "tag" files or what else? And another one, it is possible to install 2K/XP on a non-standard directory (i.e. not named \Windows or \Winnt) but must this directory be on ROOT of the drive or it can be a sub-directory, as an example \MywinXP\Windows ? Thanks in advance for any and all ideas/suggestions. jaclaz

Thanks for the guide. But, to be picky, a number of those settings should not influence performance AT ALL, being mostly "tool addons" like the MoveTo, CopyTo or cmd prompt or specific "visual" tweaks, like the ones for Notepad. Also, you sure one should name the .reg file FYI (cannot say if it works for Vista, but it works on 2K and XP) this .DLL is VERY handy: http://www.msfn.org/board/util-shell-exten...4.html&st=8 http://www.roggel.com/NGNeer/BackgroundCMD/index.shtml jaclaz

[Out of topic] Just for the fun of it.... what is the reasoning behind the idea that a Chinese member has a better knowledge (instead of English) of German and not, say, Portuguese? Nice try, however! [/Out of topic] jaclaz

Not exactly what you ask, but if you use Explorer, do check the "PrettyPath" key on your sytem: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-101 jaclaz

If you really want a "bare" XP, ONLY capable of running one (or a few) apps, have a look here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/XPSP1-with...0-MB-t3717.html VERY, and I mean VERY, experimental, but I guess that nothing can be smaller. The manual method hinted there should work for you too. Simply re-add the referenced .DLL's to %SystemRoot%\System32\ and try if it works. If it does not, try using regsrv32.exe to register those .DLL's that require registrations. jaclaz

Maybe you can use an external program, WAITFORFILE: http://www.gdps.dk/products/freeware.shtml jaclaz

OK, now that everyone is happy and there is an ENTIRE sub-forum here at MSFN, we do not want to make another "mega-thread" don't we? Please, if you have a problem with these files, start a NEW thread, possibly with a meaningful title. If you want to thank any of the authors, post here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Credits-t111401.html I splitted and made new threads as it seemed correct to me, if any of the previous poster had their post(s) moved wrongly, please PM me, I'll try and fix the misplacement. jaclaz

Also, this one is VERY handy: http://www.scheernet.de/cmdli/dokumentatio...l#eigenschaften http://www.scheernet.de/cmdli/download/index_en.html NO frills, very effective. jaclaz

@Jeremy @All Care to try this? (NOT a FULL defragmenting software, but similar to Sysinternals Contig, may be of use for "selected" defragmenting) Wincontig: http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm jaclaz

Happy everything went well. jaclaz

Yes, that definitely is a (DR-DOS) prompt. Over the years HP used several different ways to create "recovery disks", one cannot say what you have in your hands without more info. Do the following, on your normally booted system insert one by one the disks in your drive, say, D:\ , open a command prompt and issue the following: repeat changing everytyme the 01 to 02, 03, etc. Compress all the .DIR files into a .zip file and attach it here, maybe from what is on the disks we can say what you can do with them, most probably you will need to re-create a "standard" Xp Home source from the files on the disks, or from those on your HD, something like this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16381 before being able to use nlite. jaclaz

Yep, but unless you actually post your ideas, it is rather difficult for me reading your mind and helping you. I mean, if you have several FOUR letters folders, like PRO1, W2KS, SV03, etc., the "standard" grub4dos entries would be: title PRO1 find --set-root /PRO1/SETUPLDR.BIN chainloader /PRO1/SETUPLDR.BIN title W2KS find --set-root /W2KS/SETUPLDR.BIN chainloader /W2KS/SETUPLDR.BIN title SV03 find --set-root /SV03/SETUPLDR.BIN chainloader /SV03/SETUPLDR.BIN but if the partition is hidden, non active, logical, on 2nd hard disk, etc., etc. you will need additional commands like mapping ones, or makeactive, etc. jaclaz

ahmedah, believe me, no offence intended , but your explanation is hardly understandable, and, from the few things I can understand you are simply missing some pre-requisites: 1) average knowledge of English 2) BASIC knowledge of batch programming In other words, you are asking here: "How do I build a skyscraper?" but you don't know (yet): 1) how to pour concrete/cement 2) how to assemble steel 3) how to lay bricks And you have only: 1) a hammer 2) some nails 3) a few wooden planks 4) NO bricks, NO steel NO concrete/cement What I can suggest you is to forget for the moment about building a "portable" application and study some basic batch programming. As said the Rob van der Woude site: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ has a lot of examples and some very good simple explanations for most if not all batch commands, as an example, this answers your question about FOR loops: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.html (this can help you understand HOW to do things, and if there is something you have problems with, you may ask for help here) BUT BEFORE attempting to learn from there, you NEED to study ALL commands on this site: http://www.ss64.com/nt/index.html (these are the bricks, the steel and concrete you need before knowing how to assemble them) I am sorry I cannot help you at the moment , but until you do not have the base knowledge there is no sense in giving you info that will only confuse you further. jaclaz

ahmedah, we need yet some more details, as your question involves several different techniques. Basically your: would be written in batch as: IF EXIST C:\myfolder\myprog.exe RMDIR /S /Q C:\myfolder About shared .dlls, you may try to NOT copy them to the %SystemRoot%\System32\ folder and use .local, see this: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/DLL-HELL-t3839.html On the other hand, since you might severely mess up the destination PC, if you really need to copy (and later delete) "shared" .dlls you may want to make sure that you do not delete a file that was on the system BEFORE you ran your "portable". As a VERY basic example, supposing you use a .dll named ANAME.DLL: IF EXIST %SystemRoot%\System32\ANAME.DLL ( REN %SystemRoot%\System32\ANAME.DLL ANAME.DLL.OLD COPY /B /V C:\mytempfolder\ANAME.DLL %SystemRoot%\System32\ANAME.DLL ECHO TO RESTORE ANAME.DLL.OLD ANAME.DLL>>C:\mytempfolder\portablelog.log ) And later, when exiting the program: FOR /F "tokens=3,4 delims= " %%A IN (C:\mytempfolder\portablelog.log) DO ( COPY /B /V %SystemRoot%\System32\%%A %SystemRoot%\System32\%%B ) Mind you the above are just UNTESTED examples, only useful to illustrate the idea. About Registry entries, you will need to study REG.EXE syntax and export any (if existing) keys and values that you are going to overwrite and later restore them. The Rob van der Woude site mentioned early is a very good source for this kinf of batch scripting, but of course do not expect to find a pre-made solution. jaclaz

That's (I mean compressing single files) exactly what the code snippet does. As always when checking batch files, put temporarily some "PAUSE" statements and add some ECHO statements, try this: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SET SOURCE= <write the name of the source folder here> SET TARGET= <write the name of the target folder here> IF EXIST %SOURCE%\*.* FOR /F %%J IN ('DIR /A-D /OGN /B %SOURCE%\*.*') DO ( MAKECAB /D CompressionMemory=21 /D CompressionType=LZX /L %TARGET% %SOURCE%\%%J ECHO Target is %Target% ECHO Source is %Source% ECHO File to be compressed is %%J PAUSE ) You did see these two lines: and put in them the right values, didn't you? DO NOT use PATHs with spaces in folder name. jaclaz

Read these: http://www.msfn.org/board/recovery-partition-t110914.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Recovery-System-...ve-t110971.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Creating-WinPE-b...on-t106822.html jaclaz

Looky here: http://www.msfn.org/board/pulling-registry...ile-t97010.html for some examples. jaclaz

(bolding is mine) I don't think that a \I386\ SETUPLDR will load x64 files? The NEW link to the Install XP from USB is this one: http://www.msfn.org/board/install-XP-USB-t111406.html but it is \I386 related, not x64. jaclaz

@brucevangeorge Don't want to start the "usual" flamewar between fans of pagefile and those opposed to it, but the pagefile is basically a "whatever does not fit in RAM goes here" so, having the pagefile on the FASTEST drive you can have is rather obviously the first thing to try to achieve. Though it is possible, having enough RAM to run WITHOUT a pagefile, there are some opinions that one should anyway be present, but of course if there is enough RAM it won't be used, unless some process "goes astray" and starts eating memory, in such a setup it does not really matter where the pagefile is put as it won't be ever (or just in these rare occasions) be used at all. @odyssey5 SSD is ALREADY here, problem is the price of it, performances are impressive, expecially for laptops, where the reduced power consumption also gives GREAT advantages in terms of operating time: http://www.gottabemobile.com/GBMInkShowOQO...PCSSDVsHDD.aspx http://www.maximumpc.com/article/is_a_soli..._in_your_future jaclaz